Texas Medical Association

What Texas Medical Association does

Texas Medical Association (TMA), founded in 1853 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, is the nation's largest state medical society, representing Texas physicians and medical students through a vertically integrated membership model. TMA's core offerings span four pillars: legislative and regulatory advocacy (state and federal, including TEXPAC political action and Grassroots Action Center), continuing medical education (the InReach CE platform, TexMed Annual Conference, Leadership Summit, and a suite of mandated and ethics CME courses), practice management support (compliance, revenue cycle management, payer dispute resolution, and the 450+ page Policies and Procedures Guide), and professional community (member sections spanning medical students through IMG and Women Physicians sections). TMA also publishes Texas Medicine, operates three podcast programs, and runs the Physician Payment Resource Center, which recovered over $3.8 million for Texas practices in 2024.

TMA operates a non-dues technology stack of limited complexity: the texmed.org website functions as a membership portal, event registration hub, and resource library, while the InReach CE platform handles CME delivery. The organization holds no proprietary technology moats and is not a technology vendor. Its competitive position rests on 170+ years of institutional brand, formal relationships with the Texas Medical Board, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, and the Texas Legislature, and career-stage community lock-in through member sections and 100-Percent Membership Groups.

Revenue is generated primarily through annual membership dues paid by physicians, residents, fellows, and medical students across differentiated tiers, with supplementary income from nonmember conference registration (e.g., $623 per physician for the Leadership Summit), CME and publication sales, and relationships with two core endorsed vendor subsidiaries: Texas Medical Liability Trust (TMLT, established by TMA in 1979) for medical liability insurance and TMA Insurance Trust (TMAIT) for health, life, and disability coverage. TMA wholly owns three entities: TEXPAC (political action committee), TMA Foundation (philanthropic arm), and TMA Alliance (physician family organization). The organization is a 501(c)-style nonprofit governed by a Board of Trustees and House of Delegates, with no venture capital, private equity, or parent company ownership, and serves exclusively the Texas market with limited national reach through its AMA state affiliate relationship.

Name

Texas Medical Association

Legal name

Texas Medical Association

Website

https://texmed.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1853

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Texas Medical Association is the nation's largest state medical society, representing Texas physicians and medical students through legislative advocacy, continuing medical education, practice management support, and professional community since its founding in 1853.

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akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: TMA generates revenue primarily through annual membership dues from physicians, medical students, and other members. Membership tiers include medical students, residents/fellows, young physicians, and established practitioners, with membership conferring access to CME, advocacy representation, practice management resources, and member events.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

TMA sells annual memberships and a bundled suite of member services to Texas physicians, residents, fellows, and medical students. Core deliverables include state and federal legislative/regulatory advocacy, continuing medical education through the InReach CE platform and conferences, practice management consulting and tools (compliance, RCM, payer disputes), the Physician Payment Resource Center, publications (Texas Medicine, TMA Podcasts), the Policies and Procedures Guide, and the Career Center job board.

Product overview

Texas Medical Association (TMA) operates as a professional membership organization providing a comprehensive suite of services including advocacy, education, practice management support, public health programs, and professional development. The core offerings include TMA Advocacy (legislative/regulatory representation), TMA Education Center (CME courses and conferences including TexMed and Leadership Summit), Texas Medicine publication, TMA Podcasts, and the Physician Payment Resource Center. TMA supports members through Knowledge Center library services, Career Center job board, Practice Management resources, and the Grassroots Action Center for advocacy engagement. The organization hosts regional Local Medicine Matters Conferences and First Tuesdays at the Capitol events, while offering products like the Policies and Procedures Guide and Revenue Cycle Management Tool. TMA also manages member sections, TMA Alliance, TMA Foundation, and TMA 360 Vendors program.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Texas Medicine: TMA's official publication providing news and analysis on medical practice, policy, and leadership.
• TMA Podcasts
• TEXPAC
• TMA Foundation

Products and services

• TMA Membership Annual membership in the Texas Medical Association conferring access to advocacy representation, CME, practice management resources, publications, conferences, the Career Center, and member sections for Texas physicians, residents, fellows, and medical students.
• TMA Education Center (InReach CE)

Quantifiable outcome

• Over $3.8 million recovered for Texas physician practices in 2024 through the Physician Payment Resource Center
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• TexLa Telehealth Resource CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe TexLa Telehealth Resource Center, based at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, was awarded a $1.3 million four-year grant ($325,000 annually through 2029) from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to strengthen and expand digital health services in Texas and Louisiana. TMA has updated its telemedicine webpage to include TexLa resources and a connection form to help physicians integrate telemedicine technology into their practices, effectively endorsing and distributing TexLa resources to its physician membership.
• Texas Christian University (TCU) Medical SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTCU medical students Micheala Mitchell, Mary Conley, and Angel Sheu launched 'Charlar con Cafecito,' a bilingual language exchange program in Fort Worth, Texas, with grant support from the Texas Medical Association. TMA's funding supports the program's monthly sessions at Casa Azul Coffee aimed at improving cultural competency among future Texas physicians.
• Texas Medical Liability Trust (TMLT)coreOthersEstablished by TMA in 1979, TMLT provides affordable and reliable medical liability insurance coverage for TMA members. TMA formally endorses TMLT as a member benefit. TMLT offers strong claim defense, customized risk management, and enhanced policy features for policyholders.
• Texas Medical Association Insurance Trust (TMAIT)coreOthersCreated and endorsed by TMA, TMAIT helps physicians, their families, and their employees obtain insurance coverage including health, life, disability, and other lines. It functions as an TMA-endorsed insurance brokerage for the physician community.
• Cohere HealthminorOthersCohere Health is the entity responsible for processing Medicare prior authorization requests in Texas under a new CMS pilot program. TMA is coordinating with Cohere Health to smooth the transition for Texas physicians impacted by the WISeR prior authorization initiative.
• American Medical Association (AMA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTMA operates as the Texas state affiliate of the American Medical Association. The two organizations coordinate on federal advocacy, professional standards, and shared CME resources. TMA participated in AMA's national advocacy conference in Washington, D.C., and its members have access to AMA-developed training materials and coding resources.
• Smith County Medical SocietyminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorThe Smith County Medical Society in conjunction with TMA co-hosted the inaugural Local Medicine Matters Conference in Tyler, Texas (October 2025), demonstrating TMA's partnership model with local county medical societies to deliver regional programming and physician engagement.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Michigan State Medical Society: Michigan physician membership society with comparable advocacy, education, and member benefit offerings.
• Pennsylvania Medical Society: Statewide physician membership organization providing advocacy, education, and practice resources, structurally similar to TMA.
• Medical Society of Virginia: Virginia statewide physician association delivering advocacy, CME, and practice support services structurally analogous to TMA.
• Florida Medical Association: State medical society representing Florida physicians with advocacy, CME, and practice management offerings comparable to TMA's structure.
• Ohio State Medical Association: Ohio statewide physician association with comparable advocacy, CME, and member services portfolio.
• Illinois State Medical Society: State medical society offering membership, advocacy, and CME services to Illinois physicians in a comparable structure to TMA.
• California Medical Association: State-level professional medical association for California physicians, providing comparable services (advocacy, CME, practice resources). Most direct comparable by scale and service mix to TMA, though in a different state.
• Massachusetts Medical Society: Massachusetts statewide physician organization and publisher of NEJM, offering advocacy and CME services comparable to TMA's portfolio.
• Medical Society of the State of New York: New York state medical society providing physician advocacy, CME, and member services closely analogous to TMA, serving a similarly large physician population.

Broad incumbents

• American Medical Association: National umbrella professional association for U.S. physicians, of which TMA is the Texas state affiliate. Comparable as a membership-based physician advocacy and CME organization, though operating at federal rather than state scope.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/texmed
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/tmaTexas
• Facebookfacebook.com/texmed
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/texmed
• Instagraminstagram.com/wearetma
• TikToktiktok.com/@wearetma?_r=1&_t=ZT-96qtVgvIE7a

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Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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